Hubert de Givenchy Quotes
The little black dress is the hardest thing to realize because you must keep it simple.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.
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I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I try to stay focused.
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I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have been so copied, my drawings reproduced and sold for advertisements and done in ways I hate.
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I'm a black Catholic raised in Decatur, Georgia, which was very gang-infested. Then, I went to an all-white private high school and excelled in sports and wrote poetry, then played football at the University of Georgia, minoring in drama.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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When you get to 15 and most of your teachers are priests, there's bound to be a conflict.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
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The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
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Shoes are a big thing for me, just because it's hard to find shoes that fit me correctly.
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The second fundamental feature of culture is that all culture has an element of striving.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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The little black dress is the hardest thing to realize because you must keep it simple.
